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N.J. getting tiny taste of winter this morning

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An old Ford Model A pickup truck sports a light dusting of snow in Chester after an overnight cold front moved into New Jersey, causing a drop in temperatures across the state.
(Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger)

MORRISTOWN — The state is getting a tiny taste of winter this morning.

A cold front moved across the Poconos overnight, bringing with it a temperature drop and the first snowflakes of the fall.

But don’t expect accumulation except perhaps in the highest elevations in the northern part of the state, said Lee Robertson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s office in Mount Holly.

“The temperatures were fairly warm overnight,” Robertson said. “The ground is still too warm for it to stick.”

The rain-snow line crosses from Morris County west back into Pennsylvania’s Bucks County, but that line is constantly changing this morning as the cold air envelops the area, the meteorologist added. The precipitation is expected to cross east over the rest of the state and pass out to the Atlantic by noon, he said.

Some of the moisture that does fall could freeze on some roadways in the highest elevations in northern New Jersey, the National Weather Service warned in a special weather statement issued before dawn. However, predictions have most of the state reaching highs in the 40s today, before dropping to lows in the 20s tonight.